Moderated by Charity Kenyon Webinar
panel members include Jim Embry and Chanowk Yisrael.

Slow Food is about good, clean, and
fair food for all -- joy + justice.

Jim Embry and Chanowk Yisrael will
share ideas about how the COVID-19 pandemic has made inequities and
vulnerabilities of our food and agriculture system obvious to most everybody.
And how we as a nation might move or even leap forward to create a more
equitable, resilient “new normal” as opposed to getting “back to” the old,
fragile normal. This webinar will also highlight the opportunities for Slow
Food USA (and other organizations) to transform to be more inclusive, just, and
equitable with a vision and plan for the next 30 years.

With about 45 minutes of moderated
conversation, there will be about 15 minutes for questions -- type them in the
chat box.

Depending on interest this webinar
could evolve into a more extended set of conversations. We want to know: did
this conversation help you to think differently about the challenge? Did we
help open a path toward meaningful action? Who would you like to hear from to
further develop these ideas, opportunities, and vision?

Bios

Charity Kenyon

Charity is a former Slow Food Governor, representing the
Central Valley of California, and Co-chair of Slow Food’s Equity, Inclusion and
Justice Working Group. She is also an advocate for equitable food and
agriculture, serving on Slow Food USA’s policy committee. Charity and her
husband, Mike, live on the Central Coast of California and manage the local
school garden, providing vegetables for the school lunch program.

Chanowk Yisrael

Chanowk Yisrael was born and raised in the South Oak Park
neighborhood of Sacramento, California which is termed a “food desert”
according to the UDA. His parents are both cancer survivors and those events
prompted Chanowk to break the cycle of poor eating habits that plague his
community and transition himself and his family to a plant-based diet.
Determined to put healthy food on the family table, in 2008 during the great
recession, Chanowk decided that the best way to do this was to start growing
his own food. In 2011, Chanowk traded in his corporate frequent flyer
miles for seeds and soil and together with his wife Judith started The Yisrael
Family Urban Farm whose mission is to #transformthehood4good using urban
agriculture to engage, employ and empower their community.

Jim is the Slow Food Governor
for Kentucky, Co-chair of Slow Food’s Equity, Inclusion and Justice Working
Group and was the primary author of the Slow EIJ Manifesto. In KY he serves as director of
Sustainable Communities Network that works to educate and empower sustainable
cities. 6 years ago he moved to a thirty-acre family farm where he is creating
an organic environmental education center and growing lots of food. Jim has
been a participant in most all the social movements of the past 60 years with a
focus on food, agricultural and environmental justice. Jim has organized over
60 community gardens, was a co-writer for the Sustainable World Sourcebook,
helped organize food justice conferences at the local and national levels and
is working on his first book, Black and Green, a memoir of his food
justice work.